The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-02-24
BRIC-A-BRAC,
HER ANSNYER

She looked up in swift surprise.
The color from out her bright ewes fed
The light grew dim in her eyes.
'Nou'rc going to be married?" She echoed
low,
Her voice had steady tone;
81 hope you'll be happy where'er you 90.
A cough hid little moan.
81 know that your bride will be good and
true,
You never could love any other"
She steadily looked in his dark eyes blue;
81 tender pou joy, my brother"
"I'm going to be marricd-that is, | hone
TO be, though / hardly know
Dear love, shall longer pine and NOPE?
| trcmble for fear Of No."
The color that out of her face had fled
Came back with deeper hue
"Why, isn't it funny" she shyly said,
That I'm to be married, too?"
Time is the best preacher.
Hard to beat-A china egg.
Spell l-bound-Thc dictionary.
a professional raCe-Doctors.
Always in usc-Thc letter s.
The weigh Of all ilcsh-Sixtccn ounces
| to the pound.
There arc about T00 900 kernels of wheat
| to a bushcl.
It's quite natural that boy should blub-
Der when he is whalcd.
The riches which always take to them
selves wings-Ostriche
The ancient Roman began his dinner
with eggs and finished it with apples.
a health journal says that marble top
| tables are unhealthy. They do look pale.
When summoned to do so, man goes
to court for the sake of appearance.
why are you so distant?" said tramp
to becfstcak in the restaurant window.
Marine blue" is rightly termed seas
On-able color
| a Maryland justice decides that q hus-
| band is liable for his wifc's slander.
Where there is a will there is way to
| break it.
:, A. bent pin can't pull very much, but,
| Great Scott! how it can push.
a hand in the bird is worth two in the
| especially if it happens to be a briar
| bush.
The power Of the press" is best felt by
nm who gets his fingers caught in its me-
chanism
Sarah Bernhardt is five feet eleven inches
| tall, but her other dimensions are not worth
mentioning.
10 keep apples from rotting, eat them
| up, is the gratuitous advice Of one Of our
| agricultural exchanges
| IN recent sermon Henry Ward Beechcr
SAID: Il have no sympathy with eighth
men who have fourteen hour wives"
| The man with a single English cyeglass
| looks as If he had a pain in his eve, and in
such condition presents an odd spectacle.
What small population this world
| would have if all the grumblers were out
| Of it.
a new style of writing paper is called
| NDudc. We infer that it is a kind of
roolscap.
Couples court before they are married.
"H0 they must, also 20 to court before they
| are divorced.
y r0un;ryman speaking of an individual
! Notorious tor his assurance said he had
| cHGCk enough for two rows of tccth.''
ne rain falls alike upon the lust and the
. "''":.@.; hut IL is tic unjust who steal the
Umbrellas, and let the just feel the rain
An eminent historian traces base ball
| BAL to the time when Rchccca went down
| 10 the we'll with pitcher and caught Isaac
II we are going TO quarrel with England,
Tor Heavens sake let Us wait until Mr..
J"hH l." SIIii"an 5 arm gets well,
y correspondent inquiries: "Is it wrong
70 cheat Il lawycr?' Possiblyno but it IS
a pretty hard job to undertake.
S@ys an exchange: "Womcn should never
Use ii!t-ir0n on their husbands to smooth
! Out matrimonial difficulties"
What III woman is called "curiOsitv"
IN Il man is grandioqucntly magnificd into
the "Spirt of inquiry"
Accounting to that wise man, Matthew
Arnold, the poor arc very much what the
Eich made them"
NoW doth the coal dealer and plumber
rejoice, while the ice man can't "givc it
Il wcigh."
Heard at the theatre: Shc-Thay, Guth,
90 you perceive that | lithp? IIc-Thcr
'Mhly not; you don't lithp any more than
Go.
The father of his country is said first to
nave learned the pleasure of travelling on
tour wheels when he took hack at the
cherry tree.
Why women kiss each other is
AN undetermined question,
Unless the darlings would by this
Give man sweet suggestion.
When you sec q good COW, buy her.
W hCn you have a good COW, keep her
When you own bad cow, sell her.
ask a man who is addressed by the title of
"ColOnci' in what war he was.
Why is wrinklcd face like q well
ploughcd field? Because it is furrowcd
with care, of course
They used to call it matrmony, but a
crusty, disappointed old bachelor calls it
:.mattcr O money Well, it may be some
times.
1t was the ncwly-hcdgcd bee that, after
vcnturng out of the hive on wet day,
sang on its return, "There is no place like
comb"
Feminine amenities: "Now, which Of
these two photographs of you may I,havc,
dearest? The beautiful one, or the one as
| know your"
Every man who carries pistol ought to
be obliged by law to wear it in n belt at his
side, and have it labelled emotional insan-
ity."
There is a man in montreal who has been
struck by lightning three times, and he has